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Park. During July car trips were made to Lander, Wyo., Lewistown, Missoula, 

 Billings, and Gardner, Mont., and a second trip to Glacier Park. 



The black-spotted trout distribution from Bozemnn was about a month later 

 than the rainbow-trout and brook-trout distributions, and as the latter were 

 completed by the last of July the car was detailed to assist the Montana Fish 

 Commission with its distribution of trout pending the development of the 

 black-six)ttcd trout fry. The distribution for the Montana Fish Commission 

 continued throughout the month of August and was completed by September 2. 

 Besides handling eight carloads of trout from the various Montana State 

 hatcheries, the car moved one carload of trout for the Idaho State Fish Com- 

 mission from Ashton to St. Maries, Idaho. The car returned to Bozeman on 

 September 7 and at once took up the distribution of the black-spotted trout, 

 completing the work by October 4. 



Returning to Dubuque. Iowa, on October 11, the car loaded with warm-water 

 fishes and left at once for Denver, Colo., supplying warm-water fishes to ap- 

 plicants in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Carloads of the same sort 

 of fishes were distributed to applicants in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, 

 Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rliode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and 

 Pennsylvania, the destination of the trips being as follows : Springfield, Mass., 

 Ashland, Wis., St. Paul. Minn., Harrisburg. Pa., and Washington, D. C. The 

 fall distribution was completed by December 10. after which members of the 

 crew were detailed to the bureau at Washington and to stations in the field. 

 Annual repairs to the car were made at the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at 

 Wilmington, Del., during January. 



The spring distribution for 1928 was taken up on March 10, at which time 

 the car was detailed to the White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) station. From 

 March 10 until June 10 the car remained on the White Sulphur Springs dis- 

 tribution and during this time handled 12 carloads of trout, supplying applicants 

 in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Upon completion of 

 the White Sulphur Springs distribution the car made one carload shipment for 

 the Maryland Conservation Commission. After the Maryland distribution the 

 car returned to Washington, D. C, and remained there until the close of the 

 fi.scal year. 



During the fiscal year the car made 46 trips, traveling 32,330 paid miles and 

 4.591 free miles. It handled r»,206.713 fish, delivering 3,651,676 directly to the 

 applicants, and the remaining 1,555,037 were carried by detached messengers 

 from the car to the applicants. The messenger distribution amounted to 139 

 shipments. To complete the distribution necessitated the movement of 9,063 

 Fearnow pails and two hundred and seventy 10-gallon cans of fish. During 

 the year the car filled 2,314 individual applications widel.v scattered in 29 

 States. The number and size of fish delivered by the car and its screw during 

 the past fiscal year are shown in the following table : 



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